{"product_id":"still-no-word-from-you-notes-in-the-margin-paperback","title":"Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter Orner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the PEN\/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA new collection of pieces on literature and life by the author of \u003ci\u003eAm I Alone Here?\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the NBCC Award for Criticism \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStationed in the South Pacific during World War II, Seymour Orner wrote a letter every day to his wife, Lorraine. She seldom responded, leading him to plead in 1945, \"Another day and still no word from you.\" Seventy years later, Peter Orner writes in response to his grandfather's plea: \"Maybe we read because we seek that word from someone, from anyone.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the acclaimed fiction writer about whom Dwight Garner of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e wrote, \"You know from the second you pick him up that he's the real deal,\" comes \u003ci\u003eStill No Word from You\u003c\/i\u003e, a unique chain of essays and intimate stories that meld the lived life and the reading life. For Orner, there is no separation. Covering such well-known writers as Lorraine Hansberry, Primo Levi, and Marilynne Robinson, as well as other greats like Maeve Brennan and James Alan McPherson, Orner's highly personal take on literature alternates with his own true stories of loss and love, hope and despair. In his mother's copy of \u003ci\u003eA Coney Island of the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, he's stopped short by a single word in the margin, \"YES!\"--which leads him to conjure his mother at twenty-three. He stops reading Penelope Fitzgerald's \u003ci\u003eThe Beginning of Spring\u003c\/i\u003e three quarters of the way through because he knows that finishing the novel will leave him bereft. Orner's solution is to start again from the beginning to slow the inevitable heartache. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eStill No Word from You\u003c\/i\u003e is a book for anyone for whom reading is as essential as breathing.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePETER ORNER \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of two novels and three short story collections. His previous collection of essays, \u003ci\u003eAm I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live\u003c\/i\u003e, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. A four-time recipient of the Pushcart Prize, Orner has been published in\u003ci\u003e The Best American Short Stories, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, Granta\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's\u003c\/i\u003e, and his work has been translated into eight ­languages. He has been awarded the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a two-year Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship, as well as a Fulbright in Namibia. He is the Chair of the English and Creative Writing Department at Dartmouth College and lives with his family in Norwich, Vermont.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 24, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42155174854791,"sku":"9781646222049","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/f62b1c54e7d544df70ab780ec663c968.webp?v=1733233960","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/still-no-word-from-you-notes-in-the-margin-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}